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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an adult and am more a grazer versus big meal person.  It works for me and my body.  One of my kids couldn't care less about snacks and the other is obsessed with them.  Since i'm the same way (and believe my body is naturally that way versus somehow my parents made me that way and not my siblings) I don't fight it for him.  What I do is...

Make him BIG snacks in a snack box that others would consider more like a meal.  They often include 2 hard boiled eggs or half a sandwich or a hearty breakfast cookie or pasta salad etc plus a fruit, a more typical snack food like chips or a little popcorn, and often a second fruit or a veg

This size snack is offered 2x a day.  He can have it as early as he wants in the morning and in the afternoon.  He will sometimes eat it all right away and sometimes spread it out

Accept his meals are going to be smaller (and sometimes he eats basically no dinner) because he's eating mini meals (versus snacks) in between the other meals.

Once I got on board with this it went so much better.  Because the food was more like a meal (versus him filling up on "snack" food) it didn't bother me that it was so big or might make a meal later smaller.  Because he had variety and plenty, he stopped asking for more or different snacks.  The overall goal of getting "snacks" off his mind / out of our debates and getting nutritious food into him was met[/quote]

I like this approach[/quote]

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